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Also, I believe the novelization of ROTS was released before the film.

The novelizations of all the Star Wars prequels were released a month before the theatrical releases. That sort of thing was the norm for all movies back in the day. In fact, it was common for movies which were postponed to still have their novelizations released prior to the originally scheduled release date.

It's only been in recent years when novelizations are held back to either the same day as the film's theatrical release or shortly after. The first one I remember doing this was The Dark Knight.

It's a practice that really consuses me. Oh, yes, "Spoilers are evil," but it's a fact that these days with DVDs and blu-rays being readily available not to mention other means, Netflix, online downloads, the demand for novelizations has gone down. Especially since DVDs and blu-rays include deleted scenes which used to be a novelization's greatest strength. By not releasing the novelization until the movie's release there's no real reason to buy it. I guess it's no wonder hardly anyone bothers with novelizations anymore.

and this is a major spoiler for the comic itself and possibly the entire movie...

Captain Robert April.....

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They call April a former Enterprise captain, but in the Abramsverse, Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise on its maiden voyage in 2258. So is the TrekMovie reviewer just adding a description that isn't actually in the comic? Or is the comic claiming there was an earlier Enterprise? I suspect the former.

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They call April a former Enterprise captain, but in the Abramsverse, Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise on its maiden voyage in 2258. So is the TrekMovie reviewer just adding a description that isn't actually in the comic? Or is the comic claiming there was an earlier Enterprise? I suspect the former.

It's also said that he resembles neither Peter Weller nor Benedict Cumberbatch.

That itself means nothing. It could simply be a matter of neither Cumberbatch or Weller authorizing their likeness be duplicated in the comic. Unlikely in Cumberbatch's case given his prominent role in the movie this issue would likely have been covered in his contract. Especially since he is on the movie's poster which is used as a variant cover for the comic.

They call April a former Enterprise captain, but in the Abramsverse, Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise on its maiden voyage in 2258. So is the TrekMovie reviewer just adding a description that isn't actually in the comic? Or is the comic claiming there was an earlier Enterprise? I suspect the former.

Well...

I find it hard to believe that the Federation would go nearly a century (2161-2258) without a Starship Enterprise considering the key role it played in its formation.

I have no issues with one existing between NX-01 and NCC-1701, in either the Prime or new timeline, regardless of what DS9 says.

They call April a former Enterprise captain, but in the Abramsverse, Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise on its maiden voyage in 2258. So is the TrekMovie reviewer just adding a description that isn't actually in the comic? Or is the comic claiming there was an earlier Enterprise? I suspect the former.

Well...

I find it hard to believe that the Federation would go nearly a century (2161-2258) without a Starship Enterprise considering the key role it played in its formation.

I have no issues with one existing between NX-01 and NCC-1701, in either the Prime or new timeline, regardless of what DS9 says.

They call April a former Enterprise captain, but in the Abramsverse, Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise on its maiden voyage in 2258. So is the TrekMovie reviewer just adding a description that isn't actually in the comic? Or is the comic claiming there was an earlier Enterprise? I suspect the former.

Well...

I find it hard to believe that the Federation would go nearly a century (2161-2258) without a Starship Enterprise considering the key role it played in its formation.

I have no issues with one existing between NX-01 and NCC-1701, in either the Prime or new timeline, regardless of what DS9 says.

Not just DS9, TNG also.

I think only DS9 said the number of ships named Enterprise that existed in the Federation. TNG had the wall, but I'm inclined to ignore that as well.

The proposed opening of Trek 09 was to feature the Enterprise, not the Kelvin which gets destroyed and Captain April, not Robau.

Bob Orci has replied to comments at Trek Movie saying that the change in timeline has changed April more than others.

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"It's not that you can see the strings, it's that 40 years later you're still looking at them." - Steven Moffat
"This movie was big. Imagine how big it could have been with me in it?" William Shatner

Well, of course, the comics aren't canonical, and the original Countdown had some story points that weren't quite consistent with the final film (like claiming that Spock and Nero had been friends before the supernova). So maybe the same applies here.

__________________Christopher L. Bennett Homepage -- Site update 11/16/14 including annotations for "The Caress of a Butterfly's Wing" and overview for DTI: The Collectors